[2016-05-15]Cyber-insecurity: Variety of threats, uncertain defenses

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Cyber-insecurity: Variety of threats, uncertain defenses

The big news coming out of the G7 meeting in Japan will not be about establishing international norms for cyber-security. That will only get an honorable mention at best. But maybe it should get greater attention: the threat is real and growing.

Consider just these four events of the recent past:

• The electric grid in Ukraine was brought down last Dec. 23 by, it is believed, the Russians. Because of its older design, operators were able to restore power with manual overrides of the computer-controlled system.


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